Google Voice Android App Updated to be faster
Google has updated its Android Google Voice Application to be more powerful and faster. The major feature improvement is that now you can receive text and voice messages instantly as they arrive, with push-like notification. Google does this by introducing a new feature called Inbox synchronization, which will notify your Android-powered device of new text messages or voicemails within seconds of receiving new messages in your Google Voice inbox. Previously, the program would check for new messages only once every 15 minutes.
To activate Inbox synchronization, select Refresh and notification from the Google Voice settings on your phone. Once you have selected the Synchronize Inbox option, you will start receiving faster notifications. Plus, Google Voice will automatically disable SMS forwarding to your mobile phone, so you won’t receive duplicate notifications.
Also Google has made it fast and easy to interact with the contacts on the phone from the Google Voice App itself. Now you can click on any contact photo and get the option to quickly respond to voicemail by email or IM. Note that you need to have a Google Voice account to use this Google Voice App.
With your existing number use Google Voice App to get:
- Google voicemail: voicemail like email
- Voicemail transcription: read what your voicemail says
- Custom greetings: vary voicemail greetings by caller
- International calling: low cost calls to the world
- Notifications: read voicemail messages via email or SMS
- Share voicemails: forward, embed, or download voicemails
Add a Google number to get these additional features:
One number: a single phone number that rings all your phones
- Free SMS: send, receive & store text messages online
- Block calls: send unwanted callers straight to voicemail
- Record calls: record phone calls and store them online
- Conference calls: join several people into a single call
- Screen callers: hear who is calling before you pick up
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